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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-10-10, Page 2Huron grtaxpositor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FiRST Incorporatlrle Th. Ifrussals Post Publish./ In S.oforth. Ontario Every W.dnssdsy Mornkie e4A 110 grants. esner.l Mass -g .. 111111111.411MN OAu. Advertising M.wager IIIAT11t1• $OSIN1T. aditar NEWS UTAPPi Deena Ostend CIA$$MIWOS. suascasynoess ACOONNTIN4; Pei Armes Oienne McGrath Linde Pullman Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc Ontario Corwwwntty Newspaper Association Ontario Prow Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Insmut. Subscription Sates. Canada 172.00 o year. in advance Senior Citizens '19 00 o year 'n advance Outside Canada 43.00 o yew in advance SingMs Copies 60 cents each Second class mail registration Number 0690 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1990 Iditoriel and wain•.. Offices - 10 Main street. See$ort Telephone (319) 5270240 fax 327-28311 Moiling Address - P.O. lox N, SaabrtA, Ontario. NOK 1 WO Make the connection Every year in Ontano, babies are thrown from vehicles, toddlers crash into dashboards and adults are crushed into each other. Why? Because they're not secured by seat betts or child safety seats. About one-third of Ontarians still have not realized that if they're in even a minor motor vehicle collision, a seat belt could make the difference between life and death or could dramatically reduce the chance of serious injury. Parents don't realize they will not be able to hold onto a baby in a crash and, if they're not buckled in, they might crush the baby. October is seat belt month -- a time of heightened public education and increased enforcment of the seat belt taw. The fine for not wearing your seat belt is now $78.75 -- up 50 per cent from last year. Add to this the fact that each percentage increase in the number of seat belt wearers could mean eight fewer deaths and 132 fewer injuries in Ontario each year, and it sounds like a good idea. It only takes a brief moment to do a a seat belt safety check, and it could be one of the best investments made. Buckling up can save lives and prevent injuries. Make the connection. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Goose-ites on call Dear Editor: Since 1941, hundreds of thousands of military and civilian personnel have lived for a time in Goose Bay, Labrador. 1991 will be the golden anniversary of "the Goose" and we're extending a special invitation to all former GOOSE-ITES to come back for a visit. We're sure your newspaper has former GOOSE-ITES among its readership and we'd like to tell them about our party through your medium. The Town of Happy Valley - Goose Bay will be hosting REUNION '91 from July 19 to August 5, 1991. Two weeks of activities will include the North West River Beach Festival, the Canadian Armed Forces Airshow, the Labrador Canoe Regatta and lots of opportunities to reminisce with old friends and re -explore the area. Former GOOSE-ITES are en- couraged to let us know if they're thinking of coming. We're building our mailing list and have infor- mation to send about events, how to get here, where to stay, registration, and more. We'd like to hear from them soon to give us an idea of how many visitors to expect to REUNION '91. Please write: REUNION '91 Station A, Happy Valley -Goose Bay, Labrador AOP 1S0 or call: Carolyn Maybee Tourism Coor- dinator (709) 896-5-131. Yours sincerely, Carolyn Maybee Tourism Coordinator. e _ e . . 1 . • Recyclers take note of own message It never fails w amaze me. A week back oo the job, and aroady my desk looks life it was the target of a crazed paper bomber. To put u quite biwidy. I've got paper up to my armpits. Despite the fact that Canada Post has apparently ntly cut back oe all its service*, my desk (and my entire office for that matter) continues to be a haven for wayward press releases and the like. all elaborately packaged m an effort, I'd assume, to evoke my curhoaity. Well, some of than have evoked my curiosity - and along with curiosity - my wrath. To be perfectly honest (and I'm sure I've touched on this subject before) the majority of the press releases and packages that cross my desk, are totally useless to me as Editor of The Expositor. Most have little or nothing to do with the [SWEATSOCKS by Heather Robin.t Town of Seaforth, or for that mat- ter, the County of Huron Or even the Province of Ontario. And moat, are nothing more than poor attempts at free advcrusing (and 1'd rutk lite and limb if ! tell into that trap too often). But none -the -less, all memo in their own way io capture my atten- tion - and ultimately valued news Well, there was one package last week that did capture my eye, but not for all the right reasons. It was a press package on recycling, but despite the fact that it bore ingesting and pertinent infor- cntltw() un the menta of the throe Rs (reuse, reduce and recycle), u did not, in my ()puma", i rove a good example of the pitch it was throw ung Although the information itself WAS printed on recycled paper, the envelope in which it came, was not. And I could excuse that fact, had it been a regular envelope that was used. It was not. The recycling information I received, came pack- aged in an 11.5 by 16 inch, sealed air, bubble -lite brown envelope (you know the kind that is about an inch thick because a 1s lured with plastic bubble papal+). How aces that recycle? What a contradiction in There was totting inside the envelope. nothing so valuable u required such aging. and yet._ It kind of cancels out my efforts at recycling - the not -always - pleasant., but environ menutlly- beneficial, use of cloth diapers. Maybe the Recycling Council of Ontario should pay better Beed to its own message and remember that Reduce is a part of it. Because as its own Executive Director has said, "People can make a difference cc in their local environ - man by changing their throw -away anitudes and practising the 3Rs at home and work everyday." Just give us less to throw away please. two , "WELL, 1 w►AS HEIS AS PART OF 174E. boo -MAN) itJVE6fI GAT:c J, Ari MuLRoh)EY MADE ME A SENATOR 1 41( II 11011111: ((1 1114 )1 1 11 1 1 Being a genius isn't much o Friday night I ended up at a party in Waterloo at a friend's house. My friend wasn't there, but her father, a professor, was with some of his professor buddies that I know and we stayed together for hours con- tinuing the party. They were all nice guys and easy to talk with because none of them were talking about their studies. My friend's father teaches some sort of engineering. One of the other professors teaches robotics and another one teaches anthropology. They just talked about their houses, families and other regular stuff. The one that teaches robotics apparently is a genius, or so everybody says whenever this guy shows up at parties or bars. Everytime I see him I don't see a genius, but rather I see a dishevelled guy with toothpaste EJUST THINKING by Susan Oxford down the front of his sweater. Enough people tell me this man is a great brain, but I'm not in robotics so I'll probably never know just how much of a genius he is. To me he's a nice guy to run into, have a drink and talk with. I know some people at the univer- sity have great faith in him and a couple of times a year they send him to Venice to attend these great conferences on robotics and mathematics. I can see him sitting in a Venetian parlour with lace curtains in windows that overlook the canals while people in gondolas a difference are falling in love with the beauty of Venice, and all the while this man would be in deep conversation about decimals and fractions. Sip- ping his beloved cognac he probably doesn't realise his audience isn't raptly engrossed in the conversation but is instead looking for personality -revealing blots in the chronic toothpaste smear. My friend's father is quite a bit more normal and a little difficult to be around. When he talks his arms sweep through the air as he talks about his old, Mennonite house and his plans for making it even more beautiful than it already is. He talks about his quests with city council and how they do what he says, as long as he has the money. He's getting on in years and has no intention of retiring, but instead is looking for a professor from a sunny climate to exchange work and home with every once in awhile. What is so simple he makes sound like a grandiose scheme. Being with these people who are supposed to be my superiors but really are not much different from me, brings home again the human- ness of us all and how much we all have in common. It also makes me want to go to Waterloo occasionally and visit the people I know. Woman blown off verandah in 1914 itizens to take action OCTOBER 11, 1940 Dear Editor: As you are aware of by now I.R.A.T.E. citizens of Peterborough has decided to take legal action against the Prime Minister and the government of Canada. What started out as a protest against unfair taxation (G.S.T.) has now become a fight for the very survival of Canada as a democratic nation. When we as Canadians elect a person to serve as Prime Minister, this is the highest honour we can bestow upon another Canadian, and it is an honour not to be taken lightly, and as such that person not only undertakes to serve the people, but protect, honour and respect the rights of the people and laws of this nation. The four corner stones of every civilized nation are, democracy, justice, fair taxation and responsible government. We have none of the above in this country today. What we have is dictatorship, corruption, lies and deceit. The Canadian people deserve better then this. There are in Canada today four- teen and an half million people out of a voting population of just under eighteen million who are against the G.S.T. I.R.A.T.E. is in the process of sending millions of signatures to the Senate asking them to stop this Turn to page 111A • RURAL ROOTS by Jeanne Kirkby Having the harvest blues To the average untrained eye, this would seem to be a perfect autumn day. Sun shining through an off and on hazy sky; gorgeous leaf color with a gentle wind moving the early falling leaves into little scatters on the grass; temperature neither too warm nor too cool - jacket weather. What's the problem then? Like many of our neighbors, we still have white beans in the field. These beans are called Stingers and right now we're afraid they got this name because of their tendency to ripen late and sting a lex of farmers. This must have been the year to plant early beans? Isn't hindsight the greatest? A non -farmer touring the beautiful autumn countryside would look at these fields and say to themselves, "What's the matter with that lazy farmer, leaving those beans out there on soh a beautiful day. No ane is even trying to harvest them. Where are the combines?" There's nothing I'd like better than to see some bean pulling taking place here. I'm almost ready to get out there myself and start pulling Tura to page 14 • Seaforth Collegiate Institute sports f was IN THE YEARS AGONE The held at Agricultural Park on Friday when students competed in a long list of events. Each event was keen- ly contested. Championships were as follows: Boys Senior, Stewart Wigg; Boys Junior, J. Henderson; Girls Senior, Kathleen Holmes; Girls Inter- mediate, Maxine Lawrence and Girls Junior, Beth Campbell. So keen was competition in the boy's intermediate class that in one event, the mile race, which was not completed on Friday, will determine whether the championship goes to Neville McMillan or John O'Neill. McMillan has 15 points and O'Neill 12, but a win for O'Neill in this event would result in a tie for the championship. The council of Tuckersmith met in the Town Hall, Seaforth, on Saturday. All members were present. The premium of S37.50 was paid on collector's bonds for 1940-41 to M.A. Reid, agent. The Reeve was authorized to sign an agreement with Elliott Layton in regard to the payment of the township's share in his drain as recommended by engineer of O.A.C. Drainage Department. The council decided not to accept the rebate settlement of the Telephone Commission in regard to arrears of taxes advanced by the municipality, but unpaid by subscribers, and the Commission by notified of their decision to make application to the Municipal Board for a ruling. The account of Dr. E.A. McMaster for operation on a child was paid. H. McMillan was paid $50 on account of wort done on the Jackson Drain for 48 rods from the Expositor Archives t z While visiting Mrs. Alex Gardniner at Walton, one day last week, Mrs. Wm. Martin of Brus- sels, was caught by the wind and blown off the verandah, her - forehead being cut by contact with from mouth of tile, and the council t to pay $2 a rod fora further .1 rods. The council agreed to furnish sufficient tile and pay Lorne Wilson $2.50 to construct a drain across the road allowance at his property - OCTOBER 8, 1964 Snow came to the district with a vengeance on Monday evening and continued snow falls by Wednesday had covered the grounds with the white flakes. A year ago the temperature was 82, according to weather records. D'Orlean Sills, Seaforth PUC chairman, was named a vice- president of Grand Valley Municipal Electrical Association, District No. 6, OMEA, at a meeting in Listowel, Wednesday. Mr. Sills has been a director of the as- sociation for several years. Special ceremonies are planned for Friday in Brussels when Charles S. McNaughton will officially open the development road from Seaforth to No. 86 Highway north of Brus- sels. The ceremony will begin at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, and will take place on the bridge in Brus- sels. The public is invited to attend. Construction of the road was carried out by the Huron County Highways Department, and Warden Ralph Jewel and county officials will also take part in the ceremony. OCTOBER 9, 1914 Twenty carloads of horses for the British cavalry left the Union Stock yards in Winnipeg one day last week for Montreal from which point they will be transported to Liverpool. The average price paid was $125. In response to a communication from the Master of Trade and Com- merce at Ottawa, the Warden of the County of Huron held a meeting of his committee at Tuesday last. The communication was to the affect that the Government of Great Britain having assented its accep- tance of gifts of foodstuffs from the people of Canada, the department had made arrangements for the shipments of these contributions and asking the county of Huron to co-operate. The committee decide to confine the contribution to ap- ples, oats and potatoes. Of apples, not more than 4,000 barrels, of the following varieties, which will stand being brought to shipping point in bags or on hay or straw without damage - Ben Davis, Baldwins, Golden, Russett, Mann, Canada Red and Nonpareil. There is no limit to the quantity of oats and potatoes. Full arrangements will be made to receive, peck and ship donations and return hags to donors. The Warden wastacpoointed to superin- tendent the packing and shipping. The goods are to be delivered at the stations on the days mentioned the brick wall. OCTOBER 10, 1890 Dwellers in cities are not infre- quently found regarding their cousins in the country as neces- sarily somewhat dull, slow and behind in the times. They are not sufficiently wide awake, and especially when they come to the city they display considerable greenness, and lack of knowledge of things in general. We are not sure that even writers on city newspapers are altogether free from this habit. There is nothing more mirth provoking to a born and bred denizen of a city than to see a country bumpkin gape and stare at the unusual sights presented to his view in the crowded streets of the city. If any one idea is firmly fixed in the mind of the average city traveller, it is that the rural mind is slow, and if anything, a little stupid. Now, we find ourselves unable to fall within the urban view of the matter, and we trust we are not unduly prejudiced by the fact that the Expositor is published outside of a very Targe city, and that, in fact, we may regard ourselves as being situated in the country. Take the matter of living in amity with one's nieghhours, for instance Country folks, slow as they are. so rn able to appreciate the wisdom of respecting other people's feelings and opinions, while the inhabitants of some of our cities have as yet somewhat hazy ides on this point.